Characteristics of the obesogenic environment around schools are associated with body fat and low-grade inflammation in Brazilian children.

Objective: To assess the association of obesogenic environmental characteristics around schools with body adiposity and adipokine concentrations in Brazilian children.

Design: Cross-sectional study. Body adiposity was assessed using the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

Community food environment and childhood obesity in a medium-sized Brazilian city: An approach to school and neighborhood environments.

Objective: We aimed to analyze the relationship of community food environments with childhood obesity in a medium-sized Brazilian city.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 366 schoolchildren aged 8 and 9 years. Children's body mass index (BMI), waist circumference and concentrations of total cholesterol (TC), high cholesterol density lipoprotein (HDL-c), low cholesterol density lipoprotein (LDL-c) and triglycerides (TG) were measured.

Retail food outlets and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.

Context: The community food environment covers the type, quantity, density, location, and access to retail food outlets, and its influence on eating behavior, obesity, and metabolic syndrome has been investigated.

Objective: To evaluate the evidence on longitudinal associations between objectively measured retail food outlets and metabolic syndrome components in children, adolescents, and adults.

Data Extraction: This systematic review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

[Community food environment and presence of food swamps around schools in a Brazilian metropolis].

The study aimed to assess the community food environment and the existence of food swamps around schools in a Brazilian metropolis. This was an ecological study in public and private schools in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with a 250-meter buffer as the analytical unit. The study included all preschool, elementary, and middle schools.

Retail food environment around schools and overweight: a systematic review.

Context: The presence of retail food establishments around schools can be a potentiating or protective factor for overweight in students, depending on access to these places as well as types of foods available therein. The hypothesis for this study was that a greater density and proximity of retail food establishments around schools influence the weight of students.

Objective: To systematically review the available observational literature on the association between retail food establishments around schools and the occurrence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren and adolescents.